Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-01
FEMALE TIPPLERS.
Women Who Look Upon Wine when 1t
is Red-The Drinking Habit
Among the Fair Sex.
The Different Glasses of Resorts VIM II,
Ladies Ouaff the Amber, and the
People who PatroniZe Them
Cincinnati Enquirer.


where women can assent lie and imbibe.
In the latter places tn women are gen.
orally accompanied by male escorts, and
though st. first they begin with ginger ale,
settler or soda-water, they soon cara the
taste Of something stronger, and many
gradually become confirmed Gevotees to
the liquor habit.
Twenty yeags agO it was q rare thing to-
see women under the influence; now il is
no uncommon thing, as aEgOne knows
who has made the rounds Of the town, as
the saying is, to find in single afternoon
or evening hundreds OF women who are
MORE OR LESS $3.50.
The next Gay, Of course they have e
headache, snd are not st home to callers.
any one who has closely watched the
growth of the city, It's changes and I'M
Droyements, cannot hare failed to note
shat q number Of prosperous and
highly respectable drinking resorts
nave within the past five years had
added to them peculiar attachment. It
is known rs the al aides Room :" Some
times there are several such rooms, which
are fitted up with g greater or less degree
of elegance. Many are nicely carpeted,
have FreHchv and suggestive pictures on
The wall, but fOr the most part they are
simply q room behind or adjoining the
bar, containing plain wooden tables and
common chairs. Here Of an afternoon or
evening are always found several couples
seated around the table
BRINGING THEIR BEER
or mixed drinks. Few of the women ever
drink whisky. They seldom become
hilarious, yet often party of several
l-oo no u irrh nlI
time The people that frequent these
places range in age from young girls 10
married women, with their friend, who
are out for lark. If the married lady
takes too much she is quietly put INTO P |
hanson and taken TO her home. Many
have induIgent husbands who, when the
wife and mother comes home
SLIGHTLY BEFUDDLED,
accept the excuses she offers, "thac she |
was over at Mrs. -, and they drank |
too much wine" Other husbands, more |
worldly-minded, perhaps, VIII not receive
such an excuse, and, OF course, g scene !
follows. Often repested Coldness en- |
sues between the formerly happy couple, |
the wife becomes defiant, and may DO |
wrong. The result Is inevitable, and the |
divorce court winds up the melodrama.
RUSHING THE GROwLgR.
There Is another and distinctive phase =.
OF the drinking question, which is vUlgarly /
known as crushing the GROWER" It's |
nothing more than sending out for o !
pitcher OF beer Scattered all over town,
especially in the East and West End, are
convenient saloons tCat do large /
"pitcher business" as ii is known to the |
trade. Women have 3 great deal of spare |
time on their hands and pay numerous /
visits 10 each other. Some gentlemen !
friends call in the afternoon, and, wish |
ing to do the handsome thing, suggest:
"What's the matter with our having |
some Oeer?"
The ladies don't object. II will liven
up the dullness OF the occasion, drive off
dull csre and make things more sociaOle.
So the growler is rushed.
This is the social phase of it. But there
is another side TO the picture. From
drinking socially the wife, if she is much |
alone, forms
A TASTE FOR LIQUOR,
and begins by sending the girl out for 3
nickel's worth or bottle of beer. The
servant is rewarded with glass, and, of
course, keeps her own counsel. At first,
if the wife has no change, it is an easy
matter to arrange with the accommodate
ing grocer at the corner, where the family
have q book, to send along the bottle and
charge ii up as sugar OF flour It's long
time before the husband catches on, and
the wife and servant have their drink IA
lions with the regularity of clock work.
1t was not long since that the wife of a
well-tO-dO citizen died, yet few Opinet
the cause of her death. She was quiet,
modest woman, but Childless. She
formed the drinking habit, and il WAS her
custom to send her trusted servant with
q basket down a back alley for dozen
bot les OF beer. These she drank and
went 10 bed. Then got up and drank
more. At last she grew to live upon
drink. The result was she passed away
with fatty degeneration of the heart
There is still
ANOTHER SIDE TO THE PICTURE,
and perhaps it is the saddest and most
demorRliziDg of all.
''Who goes for the beeT?"
''Nearly always = chiId-a little boy or
girl The little tadS come into the bar
room, where coarse men are swearing
and drinking, quarreling over cards or
sitting back in 3 dark corner sleeping off
debauch. The little one stands on tip
toe up against the iron railing and watches
the barkeeper as he draws the fOaming !
amOer 0ulU. ~
QUIET JOINTS.
There are scattered over the city per-
haps q hundred or more ice cream sa
looms and fruit establishments.
They nearly all have back room.
Here it is perfectly respectable for a
lady to go alone and eat her ice cream, or
if she has been TO market or shopping,
and is tired, to drink her bottle or glass
or two of beer.
They differ in this from the attachments
described under the head of "LadiessI'
Entrances" inasmuCh IS lady can enter
and alone, and NO one could accuse her Of
going in to take q drink. The place is
not called q saloon. There are no red
lights over the door. There is no fancy
bar with colored deCanters and large,
elegant mirrors. Though the liquor sold
may exceed the profits of the fruit and
CONNECTIONS, they are known as
FRUIT STORES
and ice cream parlors, and the liquor
selling is simply profitable adjunct.
Generally the freshest and choicest fruits
are exposed in front, and candies and
cakes, nuts and cigars, soda water, ETC.,
on shelves elong the sides The bar is